I like baking and snails, but not the two together

Summer flavors

It’s about time to bid those summer flavors goodbye! I decided to bake cranberry-cheesecake bars and lemon bars. Lemon bars have always been extremely difficult for me- they’re always too gooey and hard to cut – but this recipe was PERFECTION.

Here is the recipe for the cranberry cheesecake bars:

Crust:

1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 large egg

1/4 cup pecans, chopped

Filling:

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup powdered sugar

3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 large egg

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 (10-ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce

1 teaspoon lemon zest

In a large bowl, combine cake mix, butter and egg and beat at low speed until crumbly. Add pecans and mix well. Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased 13 X 9-inch pan.